After Monday night's game, Commanders coach Dan Quinn took his time in showing up to talk to reporters. He arrived nearly an hour after the game ended â?? and after quarterback Jayden Daniels met with reporters (which is very unusual, for any team).
Quinn knew all about the viral moment in which he seemed to be surprised after a failed fourth-and-two play from the San Francisco 13 in the second quarter. It looked like he didn't know it was fourth down. At the press conference, Quinn had an explanation.
"I definitely knew it was fourth down," Quinn said, before slipping into a word salad that was largely confusing and pivoted to him explaining that they planned to go for it on fourth down throughout the game because they expected it to be a higher-scoring contest.
Even though Quinn's body language suggested that he was surprised to find out it had been fourth down, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt. He knew it was fourth down. But the operation for which he's responsible didn't know, once the penatly flag landed on the field (in plain view of quarterback Jayden Daniels) that it wasn't a situation in which...